The Maven team is pleased to announce the 1.0-alpha-2 release of Continuum.  
This release offers users both an advance look at what's in Continuum 1.0 and 
a headstart in helping to shape the final Continuum  release.

Continuum 1.0 features includes:

o Support for Maven 2.x
o Support for Maven 1.x
o Support for Ant
o Support for shell scripts
o Easy to use web interface
o An XML-RPC interface for integration, automation and remoting
o Easy to use command line shell interface using Python and the XML-RPC interface
o Pluggable project registrars
o Pluggable project build triggers
o Pluggable notification schemes

This alpha-2 release focuses on improving the internals and improving the web
interface. For a complete break down of the changes in this alpha you
can look here:

http://maven.apache.org/continuum/change-log.html

We plan to release another alpha and 1-2 betas prior to posting the release candidates,
which will be followed by the final release. We welcome any and all
feedback and look forward to your comments!